"But they are not the less wrong at first: the importance they attach to courage leads many boys and young men into murderous affrays—just as their satirical comments upon 'milky dispositions' lead thousands into vice."
"Do you deny it?"
"Wholly."
"Well, that only proves to me once more that you know nothing of women."
"Do you think so?" said Hoffland, smiling.
"Yes: what I have said is the tritest truth. That women admire these qualities excessively, and that men, especially young men, shape their conduct by this feminine feeling, is as true as that sunlight."
"I deny it."
"Very well; that proves further, Charles, that you have not observed and studied much."
"Have you?"